Tag: spinach
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One-Pot Spinach Chana Dhal: Healthy and Delicious
I’ve been going through my old recipe folder and unearthing old recipes from my collection of old newspaper clippings, handwritten recipes and photocopies. In the days before online recipes, any home cook worth anything had one of these folders or notebooks stuffed with family favourites and a lot of recipes that were firmly in the…
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Old-Fashioned Creamed Spinach Side | Indulgent Spinach Recipe with Dill and Nutmeg
When I make creamed spinach I usually make this Indian version from Madhur Jaffrey but sometimes I get a craving for an old school bowl of creamed spinach like they serve at steak houses or the creamed spinach they used to serve at the long gone, but legendary St Kilda institution Cafe Scheherazade, as a…
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Greek Spinach and Rice Recipe with Lashings of Olive Oil
I’ve just come back from a long two month trip to India. I love Indian food but I got very homesick for food from home. I particularly missed olive oil. I dreamt of lashings of olive oil in – salads, hummus, babaganoush, tabouli and in particular this dish – Greek spinach and rice, which was…
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Australian Big Brekkie: Green Eggs Recipe for Sunday Surfing Delight
Australians love their big cafe breakfast, in fact I’m going to go out on a food ethnography limb and say we invented the modern cafe breakfast. As a nation we don’t have that many claims to culinary glory but the big Sunday surfers’ brekkie washed down with loads of coffee or lashings of tea is…
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Versatile Bihari Spinach: Breakfast Side Dish for Pooris and More
I’ve made this spinach for many years it comes from one of my oldest, faded and food splattered cookbooks – Madhur Jaffrey’s, Eastern Vegetarian Cooking. In the days when I could get cold-pressed Yandilla mustard oil from my local supermarket I used to use mustard oil. But Yandilla mustard oil is much less widely available…
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Nivik: Armenian Chickpeas and Spinach Recipe
This recipe comes from one of my tried and true cooking bibles Tess Mallos’s – The Complete Middle Eastern Cookbook. First published in 1979 and republished over 45 times since, it remains one of the great iconic Australian cookbooks and has influenced generations of home cooks. The great thing about Tess Mallos’s book and the…
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Simple Spiced Spinach Dahl with Cumin Seeds
When I first moved to Sydney about 15 years ago, there was a hole in the wall Indian eatery up at my local shops. I’m calling it an an eatery because it wasn’t as grand as a cafe or restaurant, just a un-renovated shop with a few tables and chairs, offering a small selection of…
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Easy Sheet Pan Spinach Quiche Recipe for Picnics and Parties
I’ve made this a sheet pan quiche a bit over the last few weeks, it’s great for picnics at the beach, potluck luncheons or cut into small slices for party finger food. It’s dense with spinach so you feel like your getting a decent quota of greens, and because I use both frozen spinach and…
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Creamy Vegan Chickpea and Coconut Korma Curry Recipe
There’s nothing traditional about this take on korma. The meat and the yogurt have been replaced with chickpeas and coconut milk but it still makes a deliciously mild and creamy curry. I first made this curry when I was visiting my brother and his kids in the country. It’s super easy with an accessible ingredient…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 